Although the WiFi jamming complaint against the resort long predated ILTA14, it strikes me as ironic that the Gaylord Opryland hosted ILTA14 (and ILTA11). Surely that’s one group of conference visitors you’d not want to anger. [eta: further updates to come. Jamming was not in effect at ILTA2014] Vendors & attendees: MiFi devices are interfering…

Restoring a deleted DMS folder is no laughing matter After a folder or a tree of folders has been deleted, it is a slow, complex, manual process to reverse-engineer the folder and its contents. There is no restore-from-trash option – neither for users nor for sys-admins. I repeat: iManage provides no administrator-friendly tools to ‘undelete’ a folder or…

Question: My Outlook ‘Inbox’ has DMS fields for ‘Filing Location’ ‘Filing Status’ and ‘Filing Date’ – but my ‘Sentbox’ does not have these fields. Is this normal? How can I get this information to appear in my Sent Items and in my Inbox? Answer: That’s normal, but don’t despair. You can easily add Filing Status…

Interesting legal discussions erupted over TechDirt’s 2011 fair use publication of an unusual self-portrait: see the 2011 article describing the image’s creation. Bizarre but true! Because this photo (accidentally snapped by the macaque shown) had no human ‘creator,’ the US Copyright Office ruled that the camera’s owner could not claim copyright of the image. Ape rights…